Our Purpose

- Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._

Title and Summary

Principal Software Engineer

- Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
- Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
- Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
- Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftsmanship of Software Engineering
- Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
- Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering
- Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics
- Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities




- Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
- Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
- Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mainframe) to write interoperable and performant code. Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start (poison pill, active/active/active, auto-scaling, self-healing, others)
- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from gang of four) to implement efficient code
- Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services




- Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
- Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
- Has skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments
- Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
- Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure)
- Experienced in agile and up-to-date SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Pune